the best thing to do is download and torrent to preserve humanity's wealth in knowledge otherwise we risk losing immeasurable treasures to the sands of time
Personal recommendation:
qBittorrent
- Repo
- Licensed under: GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
261 points (100.0% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
59878 readers
95 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
🏴☠️ Other communities
Torrenting/P2P:
Gaming:
💰 Please help cover server costs.
 |
 |
|---|---|
| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
can someone ELI5 what this is, exactly? A program to run on your computer that helps out the Internet Archive? How exactly is it helpful for the Internet Archive?
licenseless? 🤔
these sorts of things tend to sketch me out but giving a +1 as someone smarter than me will know if this is trustworthy
On the other hand, authors have a right to be compensated in connection with the copying and distribution of their original creations.
No author lose any compensation, only publisher. Publisher not have that right.
A sad day for pro-preservation advocates
Direct link to the court document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf
I would like to see these publishers take on OpenAI, Midjourney and others, who basically said that copyright laws should not apply to them because AI would be "impossible" without them having free access to everything.
I wish people would stop comparing those uses of copyright to nonprofits like Internet Archive
While I understand AI training exemptions to copyright are controversial, and think most people here would side with IA on ebook lending.
"Just" lost it? I could have sworn I saw this news days ago, but "just" makes me feel like this happened minutes ago
To be fair the post was 2 days old when you posted
Alls fair in love and posting on the internet
They should move out of US and keep doing it anyway.